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S L A V E ~ 17

Warning: Adult scene is in this Chapter, If you do not like that... skip Justin's Point of View, and go straight to Catalina's. Thank You. 🙃

Third Person

No words to put forth .. made Catalina feel like a pond without water.

She stood with a gulp, clenching her jaws together as she blinked. Her mind was everywhere at this point and she had felt she had no thoughts left, all she knew, is that she wanted to be alone. And so when Prince Justin took another step towards her, Catalina took two steps back - which made Justin frown and sighed heavily,

"Let me talk to you" he said, his eyes looking into Catalina's. He could not really pinpoint her feelings, and he could not figure out in the slightest what she was thinking - but deep down, he wished he knew all her thoughts.

At first, Catalina had a blank expression but that changed when a frown took over, "I-I do not want to talk to you ... with all due respect, Master" she bowed her head, looking at the ground beneath her and for some reason that made Justin a bit upset as he took another step towards her, blocking her way as she was now cornered between him and the wall, "you can stop with the formalities now" He sneered,

"It is not my place to address you informally" Catalina said, finding the courage to lift her head and look at him. When she did, she saw the frown that was more than evident on his face ... the outline of his jaw clenching in frustration as he put both hands against the wall on both sides of her so that she could not escape.

"Where is this coming from?" He asked, a hint of sadness flashing in his eyes. Catalina could not help but scoff at such a question and shook her head in disbelief and hurt, "I do not know what you speak of, Master" she said calmly, not once removing her gaze from his eyes as she spoke.

Justin grabbed her arm and pushed her against the wall, causing her to wince as she sucked in her breath - still not breaking her gaze, "You are really upsetting me, Catalina and I — I don't want to hurt you"

"I have no care in what you do to me. I am only a slave, so if you see fit a punishment for me — so be it" The words rolled off of her tongue without much thought. Catalina was tired of allowing her feelings for this man that stood in front of her — get in the way of her thinking process. All he did was cloud her mind, and have unexplained feelings sore through her body which she cannot control. She needed it to stop, but – how can she? She thought it was better if she started to withdraw herself at this moment before things got inevitably worse.

"Catalina-"

"Ms. Isabella must be wondering where you are" Catalina interrupted him. Justin looked at her and shook his head in a sigh, placing a hand on her jaw, "I have no care for Isabella"

"That is very hard to believe considering your wedding is in three weeks" Catalina said without thinking twice, her gaze now falling to the ground once more as she started to feel the tears brim at her eyes,

"I knew nothing of that. I am just hearing this too, I promise you" He used his hand to lift her face to look at him. He opened to his mouth to speak again once he saw the tears cascading down her cheeks but Catalina interrupted him, "And I do not believe you .. " she trailed off, then slightly chuckled sarcastically shaking her head, "but why should it matter? I should not care and I certainly should not even feel this way at this moment — because I will never mean anything to you, I will not be something other than a slave and this is just a cruel fantasy that I need to get away from-" as she said this, she removed herself from him and took a step backwards "-I need to get rid of these feelings.. and you're not helping by feeding me lies" she muttered, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.